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jQuery is only supported in Internet Explorer 9+, so if you're in an older version, you're out of luck perhaps, with a newer version. BUT... taken from the jQuery site... If you need to support older browsers like Internet Explorer 6-8, Opera 12.1x or Safari 5.1+, use jQuery 1.12.
1 Answer. Show activity on this post. IE8 support was dropped in jQuery 2. x, so you will want any version beginning with 1 that satisfies your plugin's version dependencies.
Cross-browser compatibility — jQuery supports older browsers which do not do well with modern tools, frameworks or libraries. jQuery-powered applications work well on all browsers.
It is based on a regular release of Firefox and synced from the next regular Firefox every few releases - example ESR versions include Firefox 47, 52 & 60. At any given time there are at most two ESR versions available; jQuery supports both of them.
Write "var" before variables, when you define them. IE8 dies when there is no "var".
Correction:
Check your script include tag, is it using
type="application/javascript" src="/path/to/jquery"
change to
type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/jquery"
I was having a similar issue. Things worked in IE6, Firefox, and IE8 running in IE7 compatibility mode; but not in 'normal' IE8. My solution was to put this code in the header
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
As to why jquery isn't working in IE8 I'm unclear.
The solution is to upgrade to the latest version of jQuery. I had the exact same problem and upgraded to 1.4.2 and it all works fine again in IE8.
Seems to be totally backwards-compatible with all the jQuery 1.3.2 stuff I did as well so no complaints here!
I had this problem and tried the solutions mentioned here with no success.
Eventually, I realised that I was linking to the Google CDN version of the script using an http URL while the page embedding the script was an https page.
This caused IE to not load jquery (it prompts the user whether they want to load only secure content). Changing the Google CDN URL to use the https scheme fixed the problem for me.
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